Modding help/Request

[Captainskull]

Hey peoples was just wondering if anyone would be intrested in helping me with a custom npc mod I want to alter for private use and was wondering if anyone was willing to guide me or change it themselves to be more compatible with Schlongs of Skyrim by removing the default underwear. I don't very much skill with modding the skyrim creation kit but I should be able to pick it quickly if anyone wants to guide me through it.

Mod - Azog the Defiler: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/86441/

[xwhiteninjax]

if it is only for "removing" inbuild clothes, just lookout for a mod like "PS Universal PC NPC Body Changer"... you are able to change bodies ingamestyle (even if changed to the same body, the underwear will be "lost")... it is only a change inside the savegame... but it works for all, not just for one special npc

[onesumgame]

2 hours ago, Captainskull said:

Hey peoples was just wondering if anyone would be intrested in helping me with a custom npc mod I want to alter for private use and was wondering if anyone was willing to guide me or change it themselves to be more compatible with Schlongs of Skyrim by removing the default underwear. I don't very much skill with modding the skyrim creation kit but I should be able to pick it quickly if anyone wants to guide me through it.

Mod - Azog the Defiler: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/86441/

I took a quick look at the mod and the part of the body underneath the loin cloth was cut away, presumably to prevent clipping. Replacing the body mesh with a nude model would work, however the skin texture itself has underwear painted on directly. If you're handy with Photoshop / GIMP you can perhaps fix that, and if so I can help you with the CK stuff.

[Captainskull]

Hey thanks XWhite for the mod suggestion I'll give that a go later tonight.

 

15 hours ago, onesumgame said:

I took a quick look at the mod and the part of the body underneath the loin cloth was cut away, presumably to prevent clipping. Replacing the body mesh with a nude model would work, however the skin texture itself has underwear painted on directly. If you're handy with Photoshop / GIMP you can perhaps fix that, and if so I can help you with the CK stuff.

How would I exactly change the body mesh and is there a way to possibly keep the current mesh and just edit it?

[xwhiteninjax]

1 hour ago, Captainskull said:

How would I exactly change the body mesh and is there a way to possibly keep the current mesh and just edit it?

body-types (and their meshes) are individual as people-minds... even if there are standards there is always an attempt to change it (to be better, even if it is only a little bit "other")... so sometimes bodyparts are naked, sometimes prevented from it, sometimes bodyparts are inside clothes... you get the drift...

 

so you have to decide, what main-body fits into your personal aspect of beauty... then go for mods which provide some follower/companion with it and see ingame, if it is true, what you like... after this mods like the "PC - changer-mod" (see above) can switch to many bodies ingame-style (think of a spell, without racemenu), so you have a tool to see, if some other bodies will be out, you like too... imho the UNP-variants have more beauties, more possibilities to change between them, without many failures, as some other mono-/custom-made-bodies have at changetime or fitting into clothes, armors... but it is up to you... since others before you have done a very great work to customize bodies, armors and give us the tools to follow them (Outfit  Studio, npc-kits to create them, utils for compiling/decompiling scripts... some examples), even merging is only some clicks to do...

 

so thinking about "one" mesh and this is stopping the discovery of a whole new world will only restrict your mind... do it the other way... build up your mind, find your idea and then lookout, how to fit all into it... as I am showing with my playstyle-mod

 

p.s.: it ist possible to "edit" meshes... this involves other tools like photoshop or gimp, nif-tools and so on... (but I am no expert for this kind of changes... mostly because there will be no need for it)

[Captainskull]

1. XD

2. I was wanting to keep the mesh how it was because it suited the character and was accurate to his body shape and size although looking into other meshes wouldn't be a bad idea because I could fine some I even like better.

3. When I was experimenting with removing the underwear in creation kit yesterday I had a problem with the body not wanting to render in the render window it was just a big triangle with a excalmation mark so any advice with that would be useful.

[onesumgame]

5 hours ago, Captainskull said:

Hey thanks XWhite for the mod suggestion I'll give that a go later tonight.

 

How would I exactly change the body mesh and is there a way to possibly keep the current mesh and just edit it?

You would simply copy/paste new meshes over the old ones. The section of the body under the loin cloth was deleted so you would need to replace it with an identical mesh that hasn't been modified, unless you want to keep the loin cloth attached to it, in which case there is no point in making the follower SOS compatible.

[onesumgame]

12 minutes ago, Captainskull said:

1. XD

2. I was wanting to keep the mesh how it was because it suited the character and was accurate to his body shape and size although looking into other meshes wouldn't be a bad idea because I could fine some I even like better.

3. When I was experimenting with removing the underwear in creation kit yesterday I had a problem with the body not wanting to render in the render window it was just a big triangle with a excalmation mark so any advice with that would be useful.

The triangle with the exclamation mark happens because you didn't unpack the BSA. You need to work with loose files to make any changes. Use something like this to unpack it:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/56063